Posted on 12/01/2015 6:26:32 AM PST by Isara
He mocks Hillary Clinton's attacks on the GOP about contraception and women's health issues.
Ted Cruz wants Iowans to know one thing for sure: He's certain there's no scarcity of condoms in the country.
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Bettendorf, Iowa on Monday, the Republican senator from Texas discussed his views on contraception and women's health issues at the end of a three-day stint in the state.
Cruz addressed what he claimed to be flaws in Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's policies toward women's health issues surrounding abortion and contraception. He also didn't miss the opportunity to debunk the Republican Party's nickname of "the condom police," which he said Clinton had assigned.
"Hillary Clinton embraces abortion on demand in all circumstances up until the moment of birth," Cruz said. "Partial-birth abortion with taxpayer funding, with no notification for parents in any circumstances - 91 percent of Americans say that's nuts."
Then, things got uncomfortable when Cruz turned the policy discussion laced with nostalgia about his wife and two children to a memory of the easy availability of condoms during his Ivy League days.
"When the war on women came up, Republicans would curl up in a ball and say, "Don't hurt me."
"Jiminy Cricket this is a made-up, nonsense example. Last I checked, we don't have a rubber shortage in America. Look, when I was in college, we had a machine in the bathroom you put 50 cents in it, voila!," he continued.
Cruz, 44, graduated from Princeton University in 1992, and then from Harvard Law School in 1995.
Cruz again drew the audience's attention to what he alleged was Clinton's campaign strategy, asking attendees to imagine themselves as the former secretary of state charged with the task of crafting such health policies.
"How do I run?" Cruz asked hypothetically, imitating Clinton.
"Well you can't run on the economy because we have the lowest percentage of Americans working any year since 1977. You can't run on Obamacare...," he continued.
"So what do you do? You go, 'Aha! Condom police. I'm gonna make up a completely made-up threat and try to scare a bunch of folks into thinking someone's going to steal their birth control.' What nonsense."
Is HRC leading in AR: they really liked “Bill” there though they defeated him twice; they always, like the battered wife, took him back. So maybe the Arkansans will warm to the original battered wife.
I vote on my principle, not the size of the crowds the candidates draw.
Do you agree? And if he picks Cruz for VP I think Trump is smart enough to work with him on conservatism in government- Trump has made a career out of hiring people who know the stuff he does not know
I respectfully disagree. Trump is not a Conservative. He will not listen to Ted Cruz for advice on conservatism. Instead of rooting for a faux Conservative for President and hoping he'll still be a Conservative in the office, why don't you help electing the real Conservative in the first place?
Trump should say he will go to ALL 57 STATES to defend what he said...
And then sit back and watch the fun
LOL - I’m putting that on my FB share for this story
Jim inky Cricket is a minced oath for Jesus Christ.
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